SOLVED Re: [ltp] Problem compiling kernel on t41

[Petr Simon]

Thanks everyone who tried to help me, it was the initrd.
Thanks a lot
Petr
Bill Barnard wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 10:14, Matt Kirk wrote:
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>>>VFS: Cannot open root device hda5 or unknown-block(0,0)
>>>Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>>>Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 
>>>unknown-block(0,0)
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>It seems to me I recently saw this message after building a custom
>kernel for 2.6.something on my Athlon workstation (not my thinkpad)
>running Fedora Core 2. I edited the grub.conf file and replaced the
>entry with root=label*something with an explicit root=/dev/hda5 and then
>booting proceeded normally. I didn't attempt to troubleshoot further.
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>HTH,
>
>Bill
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